On Mon 2003-01-27T18:21:02 +0000, Ed Davies hath writ:
> It can reasonably be argued that GPS should have used TAI but that's
> rather beside the point as it would still have had a rather odd and
> varying relationship to civil time.
GPS did choose TAI.
For all practical purposes GPS = TAI - 19 s.
For precise purposes it is important to recognize that GPS time varies
from this -- recently by only plus or minus about 50 ns, but
historically by more than that.
This error alone taints all of the rest of the arguments in this note.
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Steve Allen UCO/Lick Observatory Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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